I am a retired crime scene investigator from a NY Sheriff's Department in 1989; was Security Manager for a large mall and highrise apartment complex; Director of Protective Services at a small college. Have many mystery/adventure and teen novella WIPs with a couple finished, but not to my satisfaction and unpublished (probably forever). And if anyone is looking for my advice, they better hurry cause I'm quickly forgetting more than I knew.

I'm recently retired from the Postal Service and have been reading and writing mysteries all my life. My publications have been mainly small press and on the internet, and I have a load of unpublished stuff!!

I've always liked hardboiled crime fiction (Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, Dennis Lehane) but I've been recently finding myself mellowing out. A few more cozies, and believe it or not, my wife has hooked me on a few romances.

I'm Jane and I can't believe that I was an energetic full-time teacher in an Israeli high school (did it for 45 years) when I was active on MWF! Since then, I've retired and published the mystery novel I asked for advice about way back then! Have written two for the drawer and am now excited about my current work.Now I feel nostalgic about the site! Strange that self-publishing was termed "vanity publishing" in those days!